As the security forces were engaged in the exchange of firing with holed-up terrorists, a large number of protesters started pelting stones at the law enforcing agencies.
Farooq Ahmad Dar was tied to a jeep by the army as a shield against the stone pelters.
This was disclosed at a high-level inter-ministerial meeting chaired by Home Minister Rajnath Singh in New Delhi on Thursday
The party delegation is on a two-day visit to Kashmir to attend a series of meetings on the current situation in the valley.
The briefing comes ahead of the parliament session beginning Monday.
Stone-pelting youth were not giving up their lives for tourism but for resolution of the Kashmir issue as per the wishes of its people, National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Wednesday said.
'Is this the message that India wants to send to Kashmir?'
The officer was awarded by Army chief General Bipin Rawat during his recent visit to Jammu and Kashmir.
"Talks are the only option," Mehbooba said. "How long can you have a confrontation?"
The escalating situation in the Kashmir valley is the vanguard actions of global jihad, says Brigadier S K Chatterji (retd). And in this battle, he believes, perception management operations will be just important as operations to neutralise the terrorists.
'Knowing him personally, I can safely say that the usually soft-spoken, qualified medical doctor would not have said what he was 'caught' saying if only he had realised that he was stepping on a political landmine across the emotional LoC, says Mohammad Sayeed Malik.
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